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| Southeast Asia |
| Sulawesi bomb: Prison chief and inmate |
| 2005-06-03 |
| An Indonesian prison chief and one of his inmates have been charged over a bombing in an eastern Christian town, which killed 21 people. Indonesia's national police chief, General Da'i Bachtiar, says there is strong evidence the two men were involved in the attack on a busy market place in the Sulawesi town of Tentena. They have been named as Hasman - the head of the prison in the nearby Muslim-dominated town of Poso - and Abdul Kadir, said to be a government official jailed for embezzling state funds intended for the victims of religious conflict. Local officials have said the bombing could have been politically motivated to justify a strong military presence in the area, or an attempt to divert attention from a corruption scandal. -AFP |
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